BACKUS, ISAAC
\bˈakəs], \bˈakəs], \b_ˈa_k_ə_s]\
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(1724-1806), of Massachusetts, was pastor of a Baptist church in Middleborough from 1756, and for thirty-four years a trustee of Rhode Island College, now Brown University, and an influential delegate to the Massachusetts Convention of 1788. He wrote a history of the New England Baptists.
By John Franklin Jameson
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Snake's-head
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